An Election is in the Air
As the fall approaches, it is time for another round of provincial elections. The province is in a tough but still hopeful situation, people throwing around money and making promises that will make them look popular and ruthlessly attacking their opponents. I’m going to make a list of items that I consider a priority for…
The End of “here”
I have seen that the weekly local newspaper here magazine is now no more. Here is my little story of that zine. We go back to March of 2004 the one and only time that I had visited the office of here. I went up all the stairs in the Miller Britain building on Princess…
Preventing Service Cuts, not a priority!
This seems to be a big promise by a lot of candidates this election. Let’s face the facts in the past 10 years this city’s spending has ballooned from about 90 million to 135 million. It is time to reconsider what services that city should offer. To have a reasonable tax rate this city needs…
Saint John Road Conditions
We have all heard or experience the pot hole haven stories about this city. But, do the numbers support the claims that Saint John is too big for its population to support its roads properly. In fact Saint John has 4x the population per km of road than Bathurst. It would however be interesting to…
It’s the most wonderful season of the year…
Election Season! In under 2 months, every municipal, education, and health council in this province will be new. But this is my favourite part is waiting for everyone to announce and I need to pick the people who I will vote for. I need to vote for and choose a Mayor of Saint John, 2…
Council’s Last Chance at Transit
It is now 7pm in the council chambers and the councillors are now arriving. As council begins there is 44 people here. The meeting has now begun the councillor are doing their opening thanks to different community groups. Joe Mott is absent tonight. Most of the routine business is quite boring and routine. The first…
A Memorable Mass Transit Story
Remember that one time on the bus, when…? Share your mass transit stories. One of my best memories on the bus was on an East bus headed to the mall on March 25th, 2004. I happened to run into my friend Tony, we were both heading to the mall. At this point I had my…
Taking Perfect Long-Exposure Pics
Today is Election Day. Sure I could write about the election but, instead, I’m going to write a self-help post about one of my favourite hobbies, photography. The first tip to long exposure shots is to use a tripod. What is the fun in that? Knowing that your shot will be perfect first time, every…
Election season again, count me out!
So once again we are in the pending situation for an election in October, the question to ask is why? The governing conservatives haven’t even had a chance for their national meeting in November to develop a new policy document to drive the platform from. So they will be forced by the party to develop…
Post-Election Post
So we all know how the election turned out. As every one that knows me knows I enjoy relating the statistics. This year 23,977 voted for a mayor candidate, 24,078 voted in total. Therefore, 101 voters did not vote a mayor. In 2004, 25,489 voted for a mayor, 448 voted for me. Between 2004-2008 Saint…
My Post-Birthday Post
Yesterday was a very interesting day for my birthday. For a change people seemed nicer. It seems like it was no time ago, let alone four years ago today that (in 2004) today (May 11th) I was working at Client Logic, done after a hectic month and a half of campaigning and just waiting for…
Third Election Update
So, at this point I can’t be persuaded on a candidate because I already voted. I do believe in open transparency in politics, and since lynch mobs are so 1800’s I’m going to revile my votes. Mayor of Saint John: Michael Richardson At-Large: Danny Jardine and Chris Titus Ward 4: Kevin Goggan and Ralph Landers
Okay, a second look at the election.
So now that I have looked into the election a little harder, I am changing some of the options. Mayor:Mike Richardson- I’m not quite sure what it is but Mike seems to have a well thought out plan, no dirt and the just has a personality that one would pay attention to as mayor. Councillor…
It’s election time again!
As the signs start rising again leads to another dilemma again of who to vote for. Here are my options with names I’m not even considering crossed off: Mayor: Ivan Court John P. Ferguson Michelle Hooton Norm McFarlane Mike Richardson Councillor At Large: Stephen Chase Susan E. Huestis-Toner Danny Jardine Mark LeBlanc Rick Mantle Anne-Marie…
Again another post and another year!
While since it is a new year it just seems different. 2006 was a very bad year as I posted a year ago now that I look back at the posts I made and 2007 went by without many successes or failures. But, now it ’tis 2008. I can’t wait this looks to be the year…
Saint Johners I thought you were smart!
I still think that most of you don’t have a brain in your head sometimes. But, we will see. Come the next election I hope that there will be enough good candidate running in every ward so that we don’t end up like Miramichi. Doesn’t anyone remember why in 1980 the ward 198 years of…
And my vote has been cast…
I have just had my say, in the advance polls this afternoon. Hopefully at least 40% +1 will agree with me and turn down the ward system, as proposed by council. The idea of having 2 per-ward and have no power to regect someone if they are the only two runing is so undemocartic. In…
I’m against wards for Saint John
After hearing that Common Council is going to let us vote for or against wards I thought I would point out my views. The problem with wards is that you force people to elect people based on where they live as opposed to whether or not the person is any good for the job. In addition…